Systems & networking
Researching next-generation systems and networks that power reliable, scalable, and efficient computing.
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TV White Spaces: Bringing Affordable Internet to South Africa
Limpopo TV White Spaces, a Microsoft 4Afrika initiative in partnership with the Department of Science and Technology, CSIR, the University of Limpopo and Multisource, in addition to education partners are bringing affordable broadband to an…
Publication
Partial results in database systems
Publication
Towards Paravirtualized Network File Systems
Microsoft Research Blog
Catapult: Moving Beyond CPUs in the Cloud
Posted by Rob Knies Operating a datacenter at web scale requires managing many conflicting requirements. The ability to deliver computation at a high level and speed is a given, but because of the demands such…
Project
Compression Accelerators
Data compression is essential to large-scale data centers to save both storage and network bandwidth. Current software based method suffers from high computational cost with limited performance. In this project, we are migrating the fundamental…
Project
Ziria – Wireless Programming for Hardware Dummies
Software-defined radios (SDR) have a potential to bring major innovation in wireless networking design. However, their impact so far has been limited due to complex programming tools. Ziria addresses this problem. It consists of a…